2023-02-02 05:20:00

My Goal

Should I Choose To Accept the Challenge


To create interactive tools for students to use for planning their journey through UVic Geography Courses towards their Geography BA degree.

The Results

  • Interactive Pathways of Course Relationships

  • All-in-one Web page

    • Data Table of Courses
    • Map of UVic and Field School locations
    • Links to Planning Worksheets and Flowcharts

Interactive Flow of Course Pathways

All-in-one Web page

Leaflet Map

Visualizing Geog Courses

  • Animated Word Cloud

  • Visualizing Geog Course Class Sizes

  • Mermaid Flowchart Diagram

Animated Word Cloud of Course Descriptions

Visualizing Class Sizes

  • Note: Chart is interactive - missing info (summer classes?)

Mermaid Flowchart Diagram

Testing Things in Progress

  • Experimental Data Viz: Gantt Time Chart
  • Program Planning Form Trial phpForm Trial

Gantt Interactive Time Management

Programming Planning Form

Progress of Coding Experiments

  • Things Already Done
  • Things Still To Do (Wishlist)
  • Still Need
  • Questions
  • Challenges Faced

Things Already Done

  • Created Interactive Course Data Table that can be searched, filtered, sorted, and results saved!
  • Cloned RShiny App to one-page HTML Website
  • Interactive Course Pathway Flow networking pre-requisites for UVic Geog course
  • Interactive Leaflet Map Leaflet Map with markers for UVic location, doing field work
  • Created Animated Word Cloud from Course Descriptions
  • Visualize Class Size: Interactive chart
  • Created clickable pdf of Mermaid Flowchart diagram of course prerequisites, linked to UVic Course Catalogue
  • Tips for Use and Accessibility

Things Still To Do (Wishlist)

Still Need

  • List of Summer Semester Courses
  • List of Common Electives

Website Questions

  • Title?
  • Keywords for Internet search engine optimization
  • Formatting: fonts (e.g. Serif: Times Roman, or Sans-serif)
  • Colour scheme, logo, etc
  • Course Name format to use (e.g. GEOG103, Geog103, or Geog 103)
  • Interactive Pathways: Is it OK to use this pathways coding - it is copyrighted, though used for educational purpose >> or >> should I look into other networking vizualization tools instead (just using this for planning / design purposes)?
  • Course statistics What would be interesting to view interactively?
  • Locations for field schools, etc to add to map
  • Student feedback / input? e.g. SOGS, Community Mapping Class

Challenges Faced

  • Creating Interactive Table that Saves Filtered Results
  • Creating webpage nested tabs (still not able to do yet)

Thanx for your kind attention …

Any questions, comments, feedback?